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In this paper, we exploit the Swedish compulsory schooling reform in order to estimate the causal effect of parental education on son's outcomes. We use data from the Swedish enlistment register on the entire population of males and focus on outcomes such as cognitive skills, non-cognitive...
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by parental preferences: if parents prefer certain sex compositions over others, children's gender affects not only the … dizygotic twins. In these cases, the two children are born at the same time, so parents cannot make decisions about one twin … outcomes of other children but also the very existence of potential additional children. We address this problem by looking at …
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children. But what if children also affect their parents' human capital? Using exogenous variation in education, arising from a …-sectional relationship between children's education and their parents' longevity. Our causal estimates tell a different story; children … we restrict the sample to low-income and low-educated parents. …
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this purpose, we use both an adoption and a twin design and study the effect of parents' education on their children …'s cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and health. Our results show that greater parental education increases children …'s cognitive and non-cognitive skills, as well as their health. These results suggest that the effect of parents' education on …
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In this paper, we estimate socioeconomic heterogeneity in the effect of unexpected health shocks on labor market outcomes, using register-based data on the entire population of Swedish workers. We effectively exploit a Difference-in-Difference-in-Differences design, in which we compare the...
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markets and whether the effects spill over to spouses and children. There is substantial evidence that more educated people … spouses or children. …
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children on the labor market earnings of women and men (often referred to as child penalties). We measure long-run child …, and even turns into a child premium after 15 years, offsetting the initial setbacks experienced when children are young …. Our findings therefore challenge the widely held view that children are the primary drivers behind the long-run gender gap …
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